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The US dollar extended gains and gold hit a fresh ATH fuelled by fresh tariff threats from Donald Trump. Worries in Chinese markets and rising geopolitical tensions support further gains despite all-time high levels.
Elsewhere, the early moodiness due to Trump’s new tariff threats quickly waned. The euro and Loonie recovered losses against the greenback, while the stock markets in Europe gave a mere reaction to Trump news. The energy and mining heavy FTSE 100 led gains in Europe, goldminer Fresnillo jumped almost 5% to a year-high, while BP rallied more than 7% on news that the activist investor Elliott...

In this special Market Talk episode, we break down candlesticks and their importance in trading. Candlesticks aren’t just price movements—they tell a story of market sentiment, reversals, and potential trends.
While understanding candlestick formations can sharpen your market analysis, they’re not foolproof. The more traders react to patterns, the stronger the self-fulfilling prophecy effect.
Listen to find out more!

The US is planning to impose tit-for-tat tariffs globally, but studying tariffs case by case requires time and the tariffs won’t be effective until April. I don’t know if you could call it good news, but the markets’ reaction suggests that the latter has been perceived as good news, and helped keeping appetite afloat yesterday. The US dollar index was sharply sold despite the broadening tariff war, the US yields eased and equities gained.
But the macroeconomic and trade setup remains supportive of the US dollar – a setup that could keep gains in euro and sterling limited.
In equities,...

Bitcoin in consolidation, but are the altcoins out of gas?

00:00 Intro
00:27 Preview
00:48 Altcoins
02:30 Cardano
03:06 Litecoin
03:53 Doge & Ripple
04:51 Solana
06:33 Charts
10:09 Subscribe & Good bye

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Yesterday’s inflation update from the US didn’t go well. January data showed a hotter-than-expected report across monthly and annual readings and all categories including food, energy and housing.
As such, the Federal Reserve (Fed) rate cut expectations melted like snow under the sun after yesterday’s clear uptick in US inflation suggested that the Fed would better wait and see before doing anything else. The US yields rose, risk appetite weakened while the US dollar unexpectedly softened.
Gold, too, gained despite the rising US yields and the historically negative relationship between US yields and gold prices is no longer a thing....

Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Jerome Powell’s testimony yesterday went smoothly and in line with the previous remarks that the Fed is not in a hurry to cut the rates.
All eyes are on today’s US inflation update. The US headline inflation is expected to steady near 2.9% y-o-y in January, core inflation may have eased from 3.2% to 3.1%. A set of softer-than-expected inflation numbers could help sooth inflation worries and encourage a deeper retreat in the US dollar and a further advance across the major peers. While a stronger-than-expected set of inflation figures could fuel worries, back a further...

The US dollar extended gains and gold hit a fresh ATH fuelled by fresh tariff threats from Donald Trump. Worries in Chinese markets and rising geopolitical tensions support further gains despite all-time high levels.
Elsewhere, the early moodiness due to Trump’s new tariff threats quickly waned. The euro and Loonie recovered losses against the greenback, while the stock markets in Europe gave a mere reaction to Trump news. The energy and mining heavy FTSE 100 led gains in Europe, goldminer Fresnillo jumped almost 5% to a year-high, while BP rallied more than 7% on news that the activist investor Elliott...

Another week starts with tariff threats. This time, everyone that applies tariffs to the US will be hit back with the same tariffs, and all aluminium and steel imports to the US – no matter from whom – will face a 25% tariff. ;ood this Monday in Asia is pretty mixed – to say the least. Aluminum and iron ore futures are slightly down, the US dollar index is up and the commodity currencies like Aussie and Loonie opened the week with a gap but the AUDUSD recovered early losses. The swift recovery in Aussie was certainly due to the...

Monday’s trade tensions have been gradually waning, last week’s DeepSeek shocker is also digested among global tech investors. Earnings continue to flow in, on the other hand, and reinforce the narrative – or the fear – of rising AI spending and slowing growth. In this context, Amazon – that reported its latest quarter results yesterday after the bell – was the latest to post better-than-expected earnings and revenue but a slower growth of its cloud division.
Zooming out, the S&P500 and Nasdaq 100 are surviving the less-than-wow Big Tech earnings. Both indices hang on near their ATH levels. The easing...

Sentiment across Europe and the US improves on waning trade tensions with the US. Most major indices ended the session in the green, but gains in the US were questionable due to the underwhelming set of earnings from big companies including Google, AMD and Ford, and a better than expected ADP report.
US yields fell and the dollar softened letting the euro and sterling recover recent losses. The short-term gains could be extended but medium-term outlook for both currencies remain bearish against the greenback.
Elsewhere, the convergence trade in favour of European stocks and Chinese AI, robot stocks is building...